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Yandex waives fees after drone attacks disrupt its data centers
Drone attacks on Yandex data centers disrupted services in Russia, taking three of the company’s six centers offline in four days.
Yandex, a major Russian technology company, said it would waive some cloud and software fees through October while engineers work to restore services.
Cloud subscribers will not be billed for use from Oct.
8 to 31, while fees will also be waived for personal-plan users of its Yandex 360 suite.
Yandex Pay said it would waive certain late fees and interest linked to the downtime and raise savings-account interest rates to 20% this week.
The company’s cloud, office software and payment services have partly restored operations.
Yandex shares lost 5.4% of their market value over two days, while the Kremlin said it was too early to estimate the financial losses from the attacks.
The company is taking urgent steps to address the damage, and the full financial impact remains unclear.
Yandex waived fees for some cloud and software services after drone attacks disrupted its data centers.
Three attacks in four days took three of the company’s six data centers offline.
Yandex Cloud subscribers will not be billed for usage from Oct. 8 through Oct. 31, while Yandex 360 waived fees for subscribers on personal plans.
Yandex said its Cloud, 360 and Pay services had partially restored operations.
Yandex stock lost 77 billion rubles in market value over two days of trading on the Moscow Exchange.
- Who
- Yandex, a Russian technology company, waived fees for some services.
- What
- The company offered fee relief after drone attacks disrupted its data centers.
- When
- The announcements followed three attacks in four days; the waiver for Yandex Cloud covers Oct. 8-31.
- Where
- Yandex data centers; their locations are not stated.
- Why
- The attacks damaged data centers and disrupted services.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Three of Yandex’s six data centers went offline.
Yandex announced fee waivers, and its services said they had partially restored operations.
Yandex Cloud subscribers will not be billed for usage during this period.
Yandex stock lost 77 billion rubles in market value on the Moscow Exchange.
- Attacks
- Three drone attacks in four days
- Data centers
- Three of Yandex’s six went offline
- Yandex Cloud waiver
- No billing for usage from Oct. 8-31
- Stock-market fall
- 77 billion rubles over two trading days
- Cloud clients
- More than 64,000 corporate clients
What people are saying
We understand that right now it’s important for you to focus on your own tasks, so we’re taking on the costs of cloud and collaboration tools ourselves.
The company is strong and powerful. Yes, it’s currently facing difficulties and of course this issue is being discussed in the government, but the company is urgently taking measures to deal with the aftermath of this attack.
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